• OpenStars@piefed.social
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    6 hours ago

    PieFed has features that even Reddit lacks, like combining together comments across all cross-posts (and plans to tweak that still further, like add the ability to a community to opt-out of it, though I find that it helps with community discovery).

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      3 hours ago

      Historically, Usenet clients tended to respond to both groups in response to articles posted to multiple newsgroups.

      This tended to result in trolls doing things like posting “I’m in the market for a computer. Which is better, PC or Mac?” to comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy and comp.os.mac.advocacy with the intention of starting flamewars.